Issue with installing golang on wsl2 - (gzip: stdin: not in gzip format)

[missioin-peaks]

I am having issue installing golang using the tar file on my Ubuntu 20.04 Linux distro on WSL 2.

This is the error I am getting:

mp@L00000:~$ tar -C /usr/local -xzvf go1.15.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

I downloaded the tar/gz file using the following wget (I also tried with curl, but faced same issue):

mp@L00000:~$ wget https://golang.org/dl/go1.15.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz -o go1.15.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz

This is my Linux distro:

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal

Thanks,
Raj

[onomatopellan]

Because you are downloading it incorrectly. You need to use -O instead of -o as parameter.
wget https://golang.org/dl/go1.15.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz -O go1.15.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz

[Faizan007-hub]

I am having issue installing golang using the tar file
wget https://golang.org/dl/go1.20.4.linux-amd64.tar.gz
I am having issue installing golang using the tar file
rm -rf /usr/local/go && tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.20.4.linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar (child): go1.20.4.linux-amd64.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

[Biswa96]

Try to download the Linux file from here https://go.dev/dl/